revision on black death

Question 1

where did the black death start?

Answer 1

Mongolia, Asia

Question 2

what are the four humors?

Answer 2

blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile

Question 3

what’s a merchant?

Answer 3

someone who buys/sells goods

Question 4

how did monasteries improve public health?

Answer 4

provided care for people and built conduits

Question 5

What’s a raker?

Answer 5

men who were payed to take rubbish away from the streets

Question 6

what did medieval peasants drink?

Answer 6

Small beers (safer than water)

Question 7

how did london try to improve public health after the black death?

Answer 7

closing bath houses

Question 8

who held the most power in medieval society?

Answer 8

the king

Question 9

who were responsible for public health in towns?

Answer 9

alderman and mayors

Question 10

what was king edward the third’s response to the black death?

Answer 10

order authorities to clean the streets

Question 11

why did monasteries need clean water?

Answer 11

mass and holy water

Question 12

what is a gongfermer?

Answer 12

someone who had to clean all the latrines

Question 13

what were houses like in town centres?

Answer 13

tightly packed together and had thatched roofs

Question 14

when does the medieval period begin and end?

Answer 14

1250 till 1500

Question 15

what’s an unhelpful medical theory in the middle ages?

Answer 15

the four humors, blood letting, not praying enough

Question 16

what’s a feature of a peasants diet?

Answer 16

pottage

Question 17

what percentage were killed by the black death?

Answer 17

60%

Question 18

why were drovers a risk to public health?

Answer 18

left animal carcasses on the streets

Question 19

how did medieval towns get their food?

Answer 19

town markets

Question 20

what’s a way that towns got their water?

Answer 20

conduits

Question 21

what year did the black death hit england?

Answer 21

1348

Question 22

what are 3 diseases prevalent in medieval Britain?

Answer 22

bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, sepricenic plague

Question 23

what’s miasma?

Answer 23

bad air

Question 24

what caused the black death?

Answer 24

yersinia pastis

Question 25

what did people in towns believe purified the air?

Answer 25

growing flowers and vegetables

Question 26

what was a common problem?

Answer 26

drunkness

Question 27

what’s a conduit?

Answer 27

a fountain for everyone to use

Question 28

did gongfermers get payed well?

Answer 28

yes very well since no one would do the job

Question 29

what would waste form cesspits be used as?

Answer 29

used to fertilise fields

Question 30

what did waste fork cesspits contaminate?

Answer 30

drinking water from streams

Question 31

where did animals stay?

Answer 31

at night inside the houses to be safe and warm as they are valuable

Question 32

what did some villages use streams to do?

Answer 32

power water mills

Question 33

what was good about peasants drinking small beers?

Answer 33

it was healthier because brewing would kill any germs, could be kept for days , had a small
amount of alcohol.

Question 34

why did countryside’s get infected?

Answer 34

people tried to run away to the countrysides, spreading diseases faster

Question 35

how long did it take for the black death to kill you?

Answer 35

a week at most

Question 36

what did medieval people believe spread the plague?

Answer 36

hot baths/sweat, looking into the eyes of the infected, earthquakes, movement of the planets

Question 37

what was the main religion at the time?

Answer 37

christian

Question 38

why did the black death spread so quickly?

Answer 38

no one understood how it spread

Question 39

what’s a drover?

Answer 39

brought livestock into towns to be slaughtered

Question 40

what is a guild?

Answer 40

a group of people who were craftsmen/merchants

Question 41

what are the 3 prevalent diseases?

Answer 41

dysentery, influenza, childbed fever

Question 42

what’s childbed fever?

Answer 42

an infection caused by women giving birth in family houses, meaning infection occurred easily

Question 43

what’s the white book?

Answer 43

a book that recorded all regulations around public health

Question 44

what caused the black death? (detailed)

Answer 44

a germ that lived in the guts of fleas,then the fleas landed on the rats and rats lived very close to humans, often in thatched roofs, on the streets etc

Question 45

what’s dysentery caused by?

Answer 45

drinking dirty water, latrines leaked into the water supplies and cesspits leaked into rivers/streams

Question 46

what were back to back houses?

Answer 46

slum housing where houses are built close together without gardens

Question 47

what’s the germ theory?

Answer 47

the theory that bacteria causes disease

Question 48

what’s the germ theory?

Answer 48

the theory that bacteria causes disease

Question 49

what did priests do to prevent black death?

Answer 49

urged people to pray for forgiveness

Question 50

what’s wattle and daub?

Answer 50

sticks and mood used for houses

Question 51

what’s a midden?

Answer 51

a pit for collecting waste

Question 52

who were kicked out of towns?

Answer 52

prostitutes

Question 53

what’s a famine?

Answer 53

a period of hunger caused by a lack of food

Question 54

what’s a parish?

Answer 54

a small area with its own church

Question 55

what made up the wealthy diet?

Answer 55

often lots of meat

Question 56

what did peasants diet include?

Answer 56

things like fruit and veg, pottage, cheese and milk

Question 57

when was the great famine?

Answer 57

1315

Question 58

what was the weekly town market?

Answer 58

where people in towns would get their food from, people like butchers were there

Question 59

what’s did flagellants do?

Answer 59

whipped them self in the streets to prove to god that they were sorry for sins

Question 60

what’s pottage?

Answer 60

a vegetable stew